Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 55
[16] One ohia tree is supposed to bear apples, another flowers only, the flowers being called lehua.
What happens: suppose, bear, call · To what, where: 16 ohia tree, apples, flowers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 16 | punct |
| 2 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 tree | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 16 | punct |
| 4 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 16 | nmod |
| 5 | ohia | ohia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 supposed | aux:pass |
| 8 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bear | mark |
| 10 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 supposed | xcomp |
| 11 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bear | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flowers | punct |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 flowers | det |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 apples | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 bear | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flowers | det |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 supposed | conj |
| 21 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | 16 ohia tree | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | apples and another flowers | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund · passive | the flowers | lehua xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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